On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 23:35, Paul Benjamin wrote:

KDE Control Center->System Administration->Login Manager Click on the Administrator button Give Root password Click on Users tab Click on the icon by default it goes to: /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/

I guess that you can take icons for other places but I would check the existing ones out to see what size and number of colors they are first. I have never changed them myself.

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On Wednesday 30 April 2003 11:22 pm, Travis Owens wrote:

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I've checked the KDE control center... It's only got like 3 or 4 listed and they're all lame compared to the little guy that's default. I just left him in there for now, but I'd like to change it...

Thanks anyways... nice try! :)

-- Travis Owens Linux MDs

Well after trying to reproduce you problem I think I found out what went wrong. You can change the user icon if you have the User,anmin or User icon radio button uder User Image source checked. If you have Admin or Admin,user checked the icon will not change. So check User, admin in User Image Source. Then pick the user from the dropdown list under User Images. Select a 64X64 pixel png file to use as the image. It appears to get copied to the /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/ and get named as <USERNAME>.PNG. According to the /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc kdm is supposed to be able to grab the png from the user's home directory in the .face directory. I haven't been able to get that to work. Here is a how-to that I found: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/KDE-GUI-Login-Configuration-HOWT... On Wednesday 30 April 2003 11:55 pm, Travis Owens wrote:

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 23:35, Paul Benjamin wrote:

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KDE Control Center->System Administration->Login Manager Click on the Administrator button Give Root password Click on Users tab Click on the icon by default it goes to: /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/

I guess that you can take icons for other places but I would check the existing ones out to see what size and number of colors they are first. I have never changed them myself.

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On Wednesday 30 April 2003 11:22 pm, Travis Owens wrote:

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I've checked the KDE control center... It's only got like 3 or 4 listed and they're all lame compared to the little guy that's default. I just left him in there for now, but I'd like to change it...

Thanks anyways... nice try! :)

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-- Travis Owens Linux MDs

On Thursday 01 May 2003 18:05, Paul Benjamin wrote:

So check User, admin in User Image Source. Then pick the user from the dropdown list under User Images. Select a 64X64 pixel png file to use as the image.

It appears to get copied to the /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/ and get named as <USERNAME>.PNG.

I just did this a couple of days ago. I took a photo I had, and cropped and tweaked it in Gimp. I saved it as a .jpg in my /home for another user. When I browsed for the photo in Control Center>Login Manager, it grabbed a copy of it, converted it to a .png, and placed the converted copy in the /opt/kde/ directory listed above. Looks good. The user now has his own face staring back at him when he logs in, not an icon. Bernd -- "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine de St. Exupery

Weird, I don't see it in that dir on my SuSE 6.4 cds (cd2) either. I'm 99.9% sure it exists, because it set it up for my mother some time ago. I might be able to check it out on an installed version of SuSE 6.4, that comp is currently in a closet though. Op donderdag 1 mei 2003 11:11, schreef Z_God:

I know for sure there used to be a girl icon too. It's missing too from my SuSE 8.1... and from SuSE 7.3 too. This is really weird, I know for sure there was one in 6.4 completely in the same style. I will check out my cds.

Op donderdag 1 mei 2003 06:22, schreef Travis Owens:

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Hello all!

Just a quick question about the icons (people) used to represent the users in the KDM login window.

Does anyone know where those icons are and where KDM references them from? I'd like to be able to change from the "guy" looking one to a "girl" looking one (if SuSE made one) for different users.

I've check the KDE control center... It's only got like 3 or 4 listed and they're all lame compared to the little guy that's default. I just left him in there for now, but I'd like to change it...

Initial searches proved unsuccessful... :(

Thanks in advance! :)